And staff test positive for covid plus week five highlights, including agony for big d. Its over. This historic 2020 nba championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers the lakers conquer the bubble. And the Los Angeles Lakers capture their 17th Team Championship as lebron enters the record books with yet another mvp. Its monday, october 12th. Early today starts right now good morning, im kathy park in for phillip mena. And im frances rivera. It is a barnstorming blitz across battleground states President Trump is returning to the campaign trail today holding a rally in florida amid his battle with coronavirus and joe biden is heading to ohio for events in toledo and cincinnati. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell has more. Reporter President Trump making a new claim about his own covid recovery, saying he tested negative in an audio message to supporters were in great shape. Tested totally negative and really in good shape. Reporter but the white house physician, sean conley, has not reported the pres
Wednesday. Tomorrow also marks the start of judge Amy Coney Barretts Supreme Court confirmation hearings. The hearings are scheduled to run through thursday as republicans push to fill the Supreme Court vacancy ahead of election day. Meanwhile, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer is calling on judge barrett to refuse herself from some significant decisions, should he be confirmed to the high court. Given judge barretts flects of interest, she should recuse herself from any decision involving the Affordable Care act and its protections, and any decision related to the election that we will have on november 3rd. The process is already improper. Shes being rushed through to decide decisions she already seems to have made up her mind on. The controversial hearings come as a former cdc director says we should expect in 20,000 additional coronavirus deaths over just the next 20 days. But first we have breaking news out of the white house. The Trump Administration is asking the president ial
Memorable. Good morning and welcome to early start. Im kaylee hartung. And im dave briggs in atlanta. After super bowl liii, apologies for the voice. No sleep. Youre right, lowest scoring super bowl ever. But it comes down to making plays and the rams had opportunities, they just didnt do it. That is why the patriots are the patriots. Defense still wins championships. Did you feel it was boring or just one of those great defensive efforts . I thought it was one of those great defensive efforts. Miami dolphins fans should be excited. Brian flores, the defensive coordinator for the patriots headed to that job. It was a terrific game plan by Bill Belichick who gets another one at age 66. Lets show you how it happened. Tom brady has his sixth ring, but it did not start well. His first pass was picked off by cory littleton. To see the first shot that tom brady threw down the field be ent intercepted, it set the tone. Acome and also gostkowski mi the field good there. And 14 punts in this ga